On 5/10/19 12:37 PM, Jason Morrill wrote: > Since the beginning of May I've had a problem with all messages going through > Mailman. They are being delivered to the lists properly but copies are > staying in qfiles/shunt > > The errors appearing in the Mailman error.1 log file indicate > " > May 05 10:16:29 2019 (1167) Uncaught runner exception: 'utf8' codec can't > decode byte 0xaa in position 26: invalid start byte ... > File "/var/lib/mailman/Mailman/Archiver/pipermail.py", line 63, in fixAuthor > while i>0 and (L[i-1][0] in lowercase or > UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf8' codec can't decode byte 0xaa in position 26: > invalid start byte > > May 05 10:16:29 2019 (1167) SHUNTING: > 1557065787.914554+25c37ef6e662cc98d41ac9d45855fe04f151e11a > > " > > This is on Debian 9.6 with Python 2.7.13 and Mailman 2.1.23 , all installed > from the Debian package manager. > > I've spent several hours hunting around for a potential solution. Then > stumbled upon this: > https://mail.python.org/pipermail/mailman-users/2019-March/084243.html
If you read the entire thread (which is split in the archive with the second part beginning at <https://mail.python.org/pipermail/mailman-users/2019-March/084266.html>), you will see that I think the issue is that whatever changed in your system at the beginning of May is causing the Python from string import lowercase in /var/lib/mailman/Mailman/Archiver/pipermail.py to import a lowercase object which should be the string 'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz', but in fact is longer and has non-ascii accented characters following 'z'. The OP in that thread couldn't verify that that was the case, but I am convinced that it is. There doesn't seem to be a Debian patch to mailman 1:2.1.23-1+deb9u4 that would affect this so it is apparently something in Python or the OS. I am certain that if you start with the base /var/lib/mailman/Mailman/Archiver/pipermail.py and change from string import lowercase at line 13 to lowercase = 'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz' the problem will be fixed. -- Mark Sapiro <m...@msapiro.net> The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 Security Policy: http://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9 Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org
